R help - Oct 2013 - Problems with R

Hi,

I have recently installed R and am trying to do some work on it. To be honest
I'm finding it a PAIN to you. I use Mac and I can open stata dta. files in R
despite using the commands suggested to me and I have been trying to get figure
out how to do reduced rank regression on it and the manual is not very useful.

Can you help?

Thanks,

Mash

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Mash Hamid <MXH191 at bham.ac.uk>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have recently installed R and am trying to do some work on it. To be
honest I'm finding it a PAIN to you.

To me?

>
> I use Mac and I can open stata dta. files in R

Great, glad to hear it's working!

>
> despite using the commands suggested to me

Or maybe not... What did you try? What went wrong?

>
> and I have been trying to get figure out how to do reduced rank regression
on it and the manual is not very useful.

The first hit when googling for "R reduced rank regression" suggests
that the VGAM package provides reduced rank regression models.

Hope this helps,
Ista
>
>
> Can you help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mash
>
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Wow, that really sounds terrible. Is someone making you use R? For my tasks it
is generally an improvement over other tools. Sometimes it can be a bit
puzzling, but often the result works more reliably and it gives me warnings when
my data are messed up. If you have a better tool for your work, perhaps you
should use that.

If you want help on this list, complaining is not going to be very productive,
though. In addition to telling us what you are trying to accomplish, you need to
show us what you are doing so we can point out where you are going wrong.  You
might find
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
helpful.
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Mash Hamid <MXH191 at bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have recently installed R and am trying to do some work on it. To be
>honest I'm finding it a PAIN to you. I use Mac and I can open stata
>dta. files in R despite using the commands suggested to me and I have
>been trying to get figure out how to do reduced rank regression on it
>and the manual is not very useful.
>
>Can you help?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mash
>
>______________________________________________
>R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>PLEASE do read the posting guide
>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

> I have recently installed R and am trying to do some work on it. 
Congratulations; you are learning one of (possibly the) world's most
powerful statistics environments.
> To be honest I'm finding it a PAIN to [use?]. 
You can have cheap, powerful, easy to use statistics software. Pick any two. 
Hm. On second thoughts, pick any one. All really powerful statistics software
costs a lot in learning time even if it's free to install.
But the initial barriers subside quite fast with determination. I recall it took
me about two days to work out how to get a one-way ANOVA done, but once I had a
five-factor ANOVA with partial nesting was a breeze.
 
> Can you help?
With great power comes great responsibility.
Have you read the posting guide for this mailing list and carried out all of the
steps indicated in "Do your homework before posting"? Especially the
bit about reading the relevant books and literature that explain and give
examples of what different packages do?
Also look at the bit about posting reproducible code so that folk can see what
you're attempting to do. Without that, the only help anyone can reasonably
give is to tell you to read and follow the posting guide.

S





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